You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.

When we are in health, all sounds fife and drum for us; we hear the notes of music in the air, or catch its echoes dying away when we awake in the dawn.

There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics.

He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past

The English did not come to America from a mere love of adventure, nor to truck with or convert the savages, nor to hold offices under the crown, as the French to a great extent did, but to live in earnest and with freedom.